[debo_]

I've been a software "engineer" for over 20 years, and my personal experience is that software engineers are basically never happy.

[tbrownaw]

> personal experience is that software engineers are basically never happy.

Being happy means:

- you don't feel the need to automate more manual tasks (you lack laziness)

- you don't feel the need to make your system faster (you lack impatience)

- you don't feel the need to make your system better (you lack hubris)

So basically, happiness is a Sin.

[teej]

I’ve used AWS for almost 20 years and I can tell you it’s more stable than Azure

[VirusNewbie]

I have zero doubts.

[macintux]

True enough. The world is never as predictable as the computers we program, and the computers we program are never as predictable as we feel they should be.

[VirusNewbie]

Plenty of happy engineers at the other cloud. :)

[homebrewer]

I presume you mean the Oracle cloud?

[direwolf20]

Nobody is happy with Oracle anything! It has some users because it is free. It has paid users because Larry Ellison bribed the government. Nobody would choose it voluntarily.

[VirusNewbie]

No, gcp. Was a happy customer for many years, now I work there.

[kasey_junk]

A bunch less today than a year ago.

[pydry]

Autonomy, decent pay, non toxic environment and non bullshit job.

It isnt actually all that much but most devs who have all of these I've come across are happy.

[jamesfinlayson]

Agreed. I've had this more often than not, and while every job has its little gripes, if I have those things the rest is well, just part of the job.